Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-17
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OFFICE OF THE GAZETTE
FORT WORTH. TEX. FeS. l6. 1887.
Trade was above good average to-day
in all lines. Prices are generally firm at
quotations.
Seed corn, wheat and cats are in good
demand.
THE STATE OF TRADE.
Special kilograms to Bradstreet's point
to moderate improvement of general
trade compared with one week ago. At
New York, Cincinnati, Louisville, Kan
sas City and Dallas the move
ment of merchandise is relatively
more active, while at Boston, Phila-
delphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Mil
waukee, st. Paul, Chicago, Minneapolis
and New Orleans there are no conspica-
Gus gains. Business is comparatively
quiet at st. Louis, Burlington, Ia. Sa-
vsnnah and Galveston Trade has been
interfered with at the west by floods, i'm
passable wagon roads, and by unseason-
ably warm weather south and southwest.
Mercantile affairs at the east have been
relieved in part from the embargo caused
by strikes at and near New York.
1uC NCH lOIh lOuSSuOItu'Su anu
New Jersey coal-handlers' strikes are
now generally recognized as failures. The
total number of striking employees this
week is 300, or 1000 during February
and 90, 200 since January l. These, with
$4,000 men thrown out of work from
other causes within six weeks, account
for l3l 900 stopping work during 1887
These men have lost $4,000, 900 in wages,
have reduced the total value OF
foreign trade S3,3SO,OOO at least
within two weeks, and at New
YORK alone have entailed 100000 extra
expense on employers and the public
NearlY all larger centers record decreased
clearingS. During the first half of Feb.
ruary New York's total clearings have de-
clined about S37 100000, against q de,
cline of 81, 100000 in a like portion OF
1886, an increase of $50, 100000 in 1885,
and decrease of S26, 900, 900 in 1884
Domestic money markets have been
slightly stronger both east and west, but
rates do not vary mach. Mercantile col
lections are fair only, western and south,
western points reporting them slow.
The stock market is stronger and
higher. Abroad the markets have recoy.
cred, and foreign sellingis arrested, while
the depressed feeling regarding strikes
and the interstate law is aIlayed. Manip-
ulation, however, seems to be largely re.
sponsible for the activity and strength
exhibited. Transactions were 2,i76,Il7
shares, against l,7S7, 6l5 shares for the
preceding week and 2,GO0,789 and 2.045,-
737 for the same week in 1856 and 1885
respectively. Bonds are IN better de-
Dqnn onH SolaS
100 in amount, against $50, 800.
FOrty-one railways with one-folrth OF
the total mileage, report to Bradstreet's
over 49, 200, 600 increased gross earnings
in 1886, or per cent, operating ex-
penses 100000 heavier, or u per
cent, and net earnings $500, 900 heavier
than in 1885, or per cent.
| The check in the demand for iron, re-
ported by Bradstreet's q fortnight ago,
has become pronounced, and it is not
thought that prices of raw iron are likely
to advance i'll the near future The de-
mand for Pittsburgh bar is heavier than al
any time since the war, and requests are
coming from districts which never sent to
| Pittsburg before. Nails are improving in
! demand and steel nails a~e I0c higher
| Orders for cotton goods are increasing at
the mills and prices are firm at advances
The recent advance of Rhode Island
worSteds prices has been Cancelled. Fall
River PRINT mills claim that they have been
making but per cent. profit within year
after several years of no profit. Attention
has been Centered upol the amount OF
cotton still at small towns and on planta.
tions. Bradstreet's reports from III
towns that stocks on hand there February
| are 50, 092 bales less than at the same
cate 1886, and SO, G25 more than in 1856
the short crop year. Less than 1000
bales of wool have been taken in London
for America. Domestic markets are more
active and prices are steady. Holders of
wool have sitter views. Wheat has de.
clined PIC. this week on decreased foreign
demand, better crop prospects, heavy
home stocks and freer selling. Some
Minnesota and California wheat has gone
abroad via New Orleans, and it is added
that more is to go. Decreased receipts
of hogs and reports of poor condition, re-
duced holdings of products, and heavier
shipments have advanced pork 10 cents
per barrel aud lard l-5 cent per pound,
with the west buOyant and the east firm
Coal prices are unchanged, except that as
freights from Buffalo to Chicago are 90
cents per ton higher February 10,
prices at Chicago are expected
to advance to that extent. The decline
of 8 cents net per barrel in petro-
leum prices has been in part recovered.
Free selling after long holding, with little
or no outside demand, caused the selling.
The total number of failures reported
te' Bredstreet's this week is 257, against
lat sD.g- u
1884 and 256 in 1888. Canada had SO,
against 3 3 last week. For the year the
total for the United States is. 1874,
against 1879 in 1886, 1924 in 1885, 1850 in
1884 and 1910 in 1888. Canada has had
l6l this year, against 1G6 last Brad
streets.
BUTTER -l215 also per II creamery 27g5c
O0TTON-Stric. lew middling, ting ed, "a /;
good middling SIC.
COFFEE = Rio, fair Ice; prime lie;
choice -l6l9l7c; Laguyra IKE; Java 29Hc;
Golden Rio lSc: Pea Berry 81 &c.
CHEESE-The bet.ar grades and Ohio factory
lOG i0aci full cream twins Ice.